Beyond saving 😱

[Sgibbar]

I get things cheap from auctions, sometimes it because I was in the right place at the right time, sometimes it because others don’t see what it actually is because it’s poorly listed and sometimes it’s because it’s dog rough and why would you.
Well this is off a FAS 604, and someone thought they could improve the grip, spoiler, I don’t think they did. I did try carving away the filler to see what was underneath, as it turns out, not a lot.

So I thought that I would try something new.
I have made a couple of grips before, in Beech and American Walnut, which meant cutting out the locating socket from the block of wood. This time I thought I would try ply as I had a chunk of 25mm hardwood marine ply sitting in the shed. Because it’s ply I thought I could do it in two parts so I could router out the bulk of the cuts and then glue it together to finish off having got the pistol into the wood.
So it’s raining and that seemed like a good time to start.
First phase has been to cut out the blocks mark out the outline and router out the first part, will take photos along the way.

 

[ishtopor]

Honestly, after 25+ years in shooting sport it is still a great mistery for me, why people destroying pistol grips while having no knowledges about what is right and what is wrong? I mean, adjusting the grip is a normal practice, but it requires some experience and understanding of how it works and what exactly should be changed. Definitely it is not the case on the first photos

 

[Inca]

A regather flippant comment, or is it, but just how do you get the requisite knowledge of how to, and where to, adjust a pistol grip.

I shoot my Steyr daily and remain convinced both it and I would benefit from a better fitting grip, or should I say ‘more repeatable fitting grip’. I’ve no idea where to start, I’ve no idea where or who to turn to for help but the one plus I do have is knowing I’m completely out of my depth and am not about to butcher a 3-figure lump of wood proving it. These are just rhetorical ramblings, no response expected or required. Not easy is it?

 

[Sgibbar]

From my experience the best grip is the one you don’t notice your holding! I sold my first proper 10m Steyr lp because I could not get the grip to feel right, my Morini Titanium fitted like a glove with nothing done, my Steyr LP 50 fitted but only after a lot of filler and fiddling.
It’s a thing that only you can know and it’s absolutely infuriating, you can drop 3 times the value of the pistol and still find it niggles or you can spend nothing but some time on some scrap…. But to be fair I started the latest with a view to a more Rink style grip based on the FAS MK2, so steeper angle etc and then just kept whittling till I got that feel of everything is just tight enough and touches in the right places.